Taylor, Berlin was a consummate telly-don, alwaysavailablefor a word-perfect interview in grainy black-and-whitewithBernardLevinor Bryan Magee on themeaningoflife or the way of the world.
One way to minimise the cost of shareholder activism, says BernardBlack, at Stanford Law School, would be for institutions to put their strength behind initiatives that affect hundreds of companies, not just pick on a few.
In a fascinating paper published last year, Stanford law professor Bernard S. Black correlates market discounts for Russian firms with their tendency toward uncouth behavior (such as stripping assets or shafting minority shareholders).
Taylor, Berlin was a consummate telly-don, always available for a word-perfect interview in grainy black-and-white with Bernard Levin or Bryan Magee on the meaning of life or the way of the world.